Civil Year

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or year:

“Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron all in black.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A man I praise that once in Tara’s Halls
Said to the woman on his knees, “Lie still,
My hundredth year is at an end. I think
That something is about to happen, I think
That the adventure of old age begins....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)